Colloquium: Decolonial Aesthetics

Creating Worlds Discursive Lines

Decolonial Aesthetics
Colloquium with Walter Mignolo and Madina Tlostanova
Academy of Fine Arts, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna, M13
5 October 2010, 5.00 - 8.00 pm

Madina Tlostanova:
Contemporary art as decolonial knowledge production in the world of imperial difference: institutions, artists, phenomena
Walter Mignolo:
(De)coloniality of knowing, being and sensing

The lectures introduce two concepts: de-linking and de-coloniality, (both reworked by Walter Mignolo and Madina Tlostanova) that implicate a cut within contemporary processes of capitalist institutionalization, control and subjugation. De-linking means to de-link ourselves from the unrestrainment of capital that does not allow just a simple opposition, as it does not function as it did in the 1970s as a unity of capital and power, but as co-propriety of capital and power. Therefore, what is necessary is to draw a line of division, in order to de-link ourselves from capital and power. De-coloniality, on the other hand, presents a political position that draws a line inside contemporary processes of coloniality and goes beyond post-colonialism.

Moderation: Marina Gr?ini? and Ivana Marjanovi?, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna